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ONE FLAG, ONE LAND, ONE HEART, ONE HAND, ONE NATION, EVERMORE!
YOL. II. HAEITOIID, OOOT., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1869. N O . 22.
§ms at iome.
L.
THE NATION'S DEAD.
Pour luinarcd thousand men,
Tlio bnivo, the good, the mio.
In tangled wood, in mountain glen,
On l)atlle plain, m prison pen,
Lie dead for me and you !
Four hundred ihousiind of the brave,
llavo made our ransomed soil their grave,
For me and you !
Good friends, for mo and you !
In many a fevered swamp.
By many a black bayou,
In many a cold and frozen camp.
The weary sentinel ceaaed his tramp.
And died for me and ynu !
From Western plain to ocean tide
Are strctched the graves of tlioso wlio died.
For me and you !
Good friends, for me and you !
On many a i)loody plain,
Their"ready swords they drew.
And poured their life-blood, like the rain
A homo, a heritage to gain,
To gain for me and you!
Our brothers mustered by our side,
They marched, and fouglit, and bravely died,
For me and you !
Good friends, for me and you!
Up many a fortress wall
They charged—tliose Boys in Blue—
'Mid surging smoke, and volley'd ball.
The bravest were the first to fall!
To fall for lue and you !
Those noble men- the nation's pride-
Four hundred thousand men have died
For uie and you !
Good frieuds, lor me and you!
In treason's prison hold
Their martyr spirits grew.
To stature like the saints of old.
While amid agonies untold
They starved for me and you !
The good, the patient, and the tried.
Four hundred thousand men have died
For mo and you !
Good friends, for mo and you !
A debt we ne'er can pay
To them is justly due.
And to the nation's latest day.
Our children's ebildreu still shall say:
"They died for uie and you !"
F'our hundred thousand of the bravo
Made this, our ransomed soil, their grave
For me and yon !
Good friends, for me and you!
AN HISTOKICAL ADDJ^ESS.
DELIVERED BY MAJOR THOMAS M'MANUS, AT
THE RKUNION OF THE TWENTY FIFTH
REGIMENT, NOY. 11, 1 8 6 9.
Concluded.
On the 12tli, the army moved towards
Port Hudson. Our regiment fell into lino
with the First division, and that night en-camped
about six miles further up, in a
cotton liold. On this march we were a-mused
at the mathematical capacity of
some of the slaves. I stopped one who
was pushing- by in the dark, and who was
IVightened to lind himself among- soldiers
—^thinking them to be Confederates. He
was a runaway, and had stolen his mas-ter's
horse, to boot. We assured him that
he was among friends, and we pumped
him regarding Port Hudson, and if there
were many men there. ''Oh," said he,
"dar is lots an' lots of regiments goin' in
deve ebery day—two, fi'eo,lbar ebery day."
"How many men are there?" "Oh, lots—
1 guess about a million."' The same ques-tions
were asked of another^ negro next
day, who made the same replies as to dar tried
being lots. "Two frce,ft)ur regiments go shart
in ebry day. All going in, sar. None
come out. Guess dey got much as two
hundred." Wo did expect real hot work
at this time ; and I think our men were
physically better fitted for it tluni at any
led through the air, we sa.v the bright
flames rise and spread, and we flattered
ourselves with the thought that our fleet
had burned the town ; but as the flume
moved slowly down the river our joy was
turned to sorrow. We knew that wo had
lost some of the vessels of our fleet. And
the volume of flame and smoke that arose
when the final explosion took place told
Ut? truly that the best and largest vessel
of our fleet had been totally lost on the
waters whose name she bore. Sunday
afternoon we received orders to returu to
Baton Rouge, and at 3 o'clock we fell in-to
line at the rear. After we had been
about an hour on the mai'ch, we saw rap-idly
following us a regiment of rebel cav-alry,
and the prospect of being harrassed
by them on our flanks was anything but
agreeable, but just then a storm something
like the grandfather ot the one had last
June broke upon us, and for hours and
hours the rain fell pitilessly. When we
halted the water was knee deep on the
ground. We could neither lie or sit ; we
had the privilege of standing all night
and changing position occasionally to keep
from sinking too deep iu the mud. I do
not believe that there ivas a dry car-tridge
in the entire army. I know there
was not a dry skin, but before 9 o'^^lock
we all had what none can appreciate so
well as a fatigued soldier, a plentiful sup-ply
of capital hot coffee, and enough to
spare to our friends of the 26th Maine. If
it had not been for that coflee we would
have probably stayed at mud lake until
now. It was John S. Ives who saved the
day on that occasion, with Commissary
Sergeant Hills—princes both.
Time will not permit me to dwell with
minuteness upon the incidents of our sub-sequent
campaign. We spent a few days
at Elders plantation, live miles above Ba-ton
Rouge, and then returned and re-mained
until the end of March, when we
embarked on the St. Marys for i»onald-sonville
and remained three days—tlience
down the Lafourche to Thebodeaux, and
the same afternoon by rail to Bayou
Boeuf, where we had our last experience
with tlie tents and our iirst with alligator
meat and soft shell crabs. We left here
in light marching order ; and our dress
uniforms and spare garments and every-thing
but what we wore was left here, and
1 am sorry to say, they are all there yet.
We crossed over to Brashear and after
one day went aboard the St. Marys with
I wont s!iy how many men, but I think the
whole division—1 know that there were
more men than there v/ere square leet of
deck room—and steamed slowly up the
river into Lake Chetemarsch, and on the
13th we landed under the enemy's fire at
Hutchins Landing, and slowly skirmished
across the narrow neck between the lalvC
and Bayou Tesche, and eucamped for the
night on Madame Porter's plantation.
And here our usual fate bcfel us. We
were encamped in a cornfleld, and the
rain commenced to fall gently, but just
enough to turn the surface of the ground
into a soft paste, on which we lay anil
to sleep. Colonel Bissell and 1
shared between us the edge of a cracker
box. He tried to sleep ; so did I ; so did
all j but few found rest for their eyelids
that night. All day long we distinctly
lieard the roar of the artillery that told of
the fight going on between Banks and
time thereafter. I mean not the 25th , 'J'aylor at Bisland, below us ; and we
alone, but the whole army. None wore
broken down or enfeebled : they had fed
well, and everything looked favorable.
Four companies of the 25th were sent out
under a held cflicer to scout through the
woods toward the (Linton road ; and not
a symptom of hesitancy appeared on the
pai t of any one. We lay all Saturday
knew that a few more hours would bring
us under fire. Before dawn our brigade
advanced, 25th regiment in front, right
wing de])loyed as skirnnshers, dowp
through the cornfield toward the woods.
A crack and puff here and there from the
trees warned us that the enemy was met
at Jast. More firing from the woods, and
and night with orders to be ready to ad-1 our boys begin to retiirn it. Wo change
vance at ten minutes' notice. At midnight front and wheel to the right, and order in
the guns of the fleet on the river and the the skirmishers; and we stop at bout
batteries on the blull's told us that the fifty yards from the woods and give as
work of pa3sing the battoiies had begun.' good as we take. The 2Gth Maine comes
Wo watched every shell as its fuse upark- iumiediately iu our rear, the 159Ui Now
York in the center, 13th Connecticut on
the left and across the road. The firing
grows hotter on our front. Soon their ar-tillery
booms out and grape pour thick in-to
our ranks. Where are our reserves ?
Where are our guns ? Soon Lieutenant
Bradley, our Monte Sano friend, comes
up and answers their guns. Hotter and
faster is the fire. "Lie close and load,
and don't rise till I give conmiand," says
the Colonel ; "then rise quick, fire low,
and drop and load." ^nd so we do. Soon
a cry from one of Company K, "Dick Rose
is hi't." "Well, tell him to get to the rear
as well as he can." Dr. Woods and his
red flag are just at hand, not out of range,
ready to attend to any unfortunate. Up
springs Corporal Lord, of Company G,
before the order was given. "Lie dov/n
corporal',' said I, "till the colonel gives
the order. "But," vsaid he, "I see a rebel
c.olonel on a white horse, and I can drop
him." "Well, for goodness' sake, do,
then." Crack went thb corporal's rifle ;
and that was Colonel Riley's last day in
the field. How they yelled ! "Stand up,
you damn Yanks, and let us shoot you !'"
And for two hf)ursthis incessant warfare
continued. Every man's musket barrel
was blistering hot with rapid firing, and
ammunition was getting low, when, all at
once, a loud yell on our right startles us,
and at the same time a well-directed vol-ley
was poured into us from the flank.
One glance told the story. A Texas regi-ment
had crawled out, hidden by the
canes until they were close upon us. Nine
cannoniers of Lieutenant Bradley's section
dropped at the first fire ; but the spry fel-low
rattled off with his guns, and saved
them. Eighty-eight of our men fell in less
than five minutes. Thirteen of them dead
or mortally wounded. And our brother
regiments suffered almost as badly. We
were ordered to fall back, and did so for
about fifty yards where we reformed. And
as the 6th and 91st New York moved on
the field the enemy abandoned the woods,
and within fifteen minutes from the time
we were flanked, we were in possession
of the woods. And here we remained till
8 p. m. The rebel gunboat Diana was in
the bayou below us, sending us a friendly
message every twenty seconds in the shape
of a shell, or charge of grape. Bank's
force was below her, our regiment was on
shore to take her if she attempted to pass
us ; and her captain was a sensible man,
he got ashore with his men and ran away
after setting fire to the boat—which soon
blew up—and we returned back to the
sugar mill, which was used as a temporary
hospital, and remained all night. Out of
our little brigade over three hundred
wouiuled were lyi ighere, besides many of
our dead. Hayden, who had been hastily
buried on the field and disinterred, was
laid here, and beside him the young and
gallant Dewey, and poor Draper, Manly
and Lathrop of the 159th New York.
There on a flock bed lay young Hunt of
company H, with his side torn open, still
alive and conscious. There was 13atler of
company <.), writhing under the agonies
of the surgeon's knife as they vainly en-deavored
to save his life at the loss of his
limb ; and Bonner and Grover, and Lin-coln,
Toft, Goodwin, and fourscore more,
arul from the lips of every one came the
same words,"well,1 guess these old troops
wont laugh at the nine months men any
more—we have done our duty as well as
any one could do it," And the 2r)th did,
I know that in the history of the war but
little prominence is given to the battle of
Irish Bend, and one reason is that our
brigade commander, than whom a braver
never stepped, was too modest to crowd
his name before the public, ho asked no
puff of him anci his deeds. Every man of
the old Third Brigade will honor him
while ho lives. Oflicers who had been in
serxico from the begi)uiing of the war and
had gone through the Peninsular cam-paign
told me that for the length of time
and number of men engaged, the musket-ry
at Irish-Bend was the sharpest and hot-test
they had over witnessed or heard. Wo
were in hot work after that but nothing
like Irish Bend.
But next a. ra. we we: e up and awHV.
Banks meant to catch the rebs, and it was
forced marches ; start at five a. m., march
till seven p, m,,no dinner, get supper af-ter
we stopped, breakfast before we start-ed,
until we reached Opelousas. At Iberia
our men found a warehouse filled with
Louisiana rum. Something that will ex-plode
quicker than benzine. Three or
four barrels disappeared before it was dis-covered.
No one could find fault with
men for drinking a little even of that stuff;
it had one merit that Louisiana water
didn't have, it was clear. At Vermillion-ville
we had to halt, because our flying
foes had destroyed the bridge. We pass-ed
next day, and by this time I had a
: much larger than a division com-mander,
about one tliird of the regiment
and every negro servant, and all the quar-termaster's
guard were mounted. They
bought the horses and mules on credit as
they came along ; near Opelousas we
found that Banks' quartermaster was post-ed
at the bridge taking away every horse
and mule except those ridden by field and
staff oflicers. Colonel Bissell gave John
O'Connor the wink, and I gave Pinney the
wink and they instantly become of tho
colonel's stafl', they were not molested.
Poor Pat Duane,—our drafted man who
wouldn't take -the oath and never was
mustered in—engineered his case by
leaving the road, going over the bayou,.
driving his mule across, and carrying his
saddle and bridle across the bridge,
caught and saddled his mule on the other
side and drove on rejoicing. A few days
at Opelousas, a march to Harris' Lauding
on the Gortableau, where a week's halt
was made, while we gathered in cotton,
sugar, &c. ;then to Alexandria, and back
across tho county to Semmesport on the
Atcha'alays, and here we learned of the
death of New Orleans of Captain Johnson
of C/ompany E. May 21 we left Semmes-port,
in the Empire Parish. I shall al-ways
remember that boat. I paid fifty
cents for a dinner that day, and I never
got it; the larder was clear out. We
landed about nine p. m., at Bayou Sara,
and we were obliged to remain at the
wharf till morning, unloaded our boats.
No sleep for us. We-did have time to get
breakfast, and than marched south to
Thompson Creek. And when we arrived
we found the position of honor again giv-en
to us, within hearing of the drums of
Port Hudson. V- e held the advance. And
at four, the next morning, the army mov-ed,
and the 25th ahead. And at noon wu
halted at the intersection of the Bayou
Sara, and Jackson road, and united with
Augur's division, which had moved up.
from Baton Rouge ; and here we rest for'
twenty-four hours, while preparations are-making
for the attack. The niglit was.
ushered in with the continuous heavy,
booms of the monster guns of tho mortar-fleet.
At sunset we were ordered to de-stroy
the fences on our front, as the ene-my
were expected to make an attemjjt.
during the night to cut their way through
us ; but the night passed quietly, and. on
Suuday morning we were ordered to ad-vance
; and slowly we moved upon the al-most
impregnable fortificatiouH of Port,
Hudson. At precisely at 12 o'clock the
first gun sounded on our front. A few
minutes more and we emerge from a ravine
and see just beyond tho outworks of the
enemy swarming with our men. From
the bluff above these rifle pits a thin cur--
tain of scattered trees stretched to the
right and left, beyond them a level plain
a quarter of a mile wide, and on, the op-posite
side stretched the parapet that en-circled
tho enemy's stronghold ;.and from
behind came the bullets thick, fast and
unceasing. For the day the T'weuty.-fourth
(.'onnecticut held ihe frontal.this point,
and we file to the right in.tho woods and

ONE FLAG, ONE LAND, ONE HEART, ONE HAND, ONE NATION, EVERMORE!
YOL. II. HAEITOIID, OOOT., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1869. N O . 22.
§ms at iome.
L.
THE NATION'S DEAD.
Pour luinarcd thousand men,
Tlio bnivo, the good, the mio.
In tangled wood, in mountain glen,
On l)atlle plain, m prison pen,
Lie dead for me and you !
Four hundred ihousiind of the brave,
llavo made our ransomed soil their grave,
For me and you !
Good friends, for mo and you !
In many a fevered swamp.
By many a black bayou,
In many a cold and frozen camp.
The weary sentinel ceaaed his tramp.
And died for me and ynu !
From Western plain to ocean tide
Are strctched the graves of tlioso wlio died.
For me and you !
Good friends, for me and you !
On many a i)loody plain,
Their"ready swords they drew.
And poured their life-blood, like the rain
A homo, a heritage to gain,
To gain for me and you!
Our brothers mustered by our side,
They marched, and fouglit, and bravely died,
For me and you !
Good friends, for me and you!
Up many a fortress wall
They charged—tliose Boys in Blue—
'Mid surging smoke, and volley'd ball.
The bravest were the first to fall!
To fall for lue and you !
Those noble men- the nation's pride-
Four hundred thousand men have died
For uie and you !
Good frieuds, lor me and you!
In treason's prison hold
Their martyr spirits grew.
To stature like the saints of old.
While amid agonies untold
They starved for me and you !
The good, the patient, and the tried.
Four hundred thousand men have died
For mo and you !
Good friends, for mo and you !
A debt we ne'er can pay
To them is justly due.
And to the nation's latest day.
Our children's ebildreu still shall say:
"They died for uie and you !"
F'our hundred thousand of the bravo
Made this, our ransomed soil, their grave
For me and yon !
Good friends, for me and you!
AN HISTOKICAL ADDJ^ESS.
DELIVERED BY MAJOR THOMAS M'MANUS, AT
THE RKUNION OF THE TWENTY FIFTH
REGIMENT, NOY. 11, 1 8 6 9.
Concluded.
On the 12tli, the army moved towards
Port Hudson. Our regiment fell into lino
with the First division, and that night en-camped
about six miles further up, in a
cotton liold. On this march we were a-mused
at the mathematical capacity of
some of the slaves. I stopped one who
was pushing- by in the dark, and who was
IVightened to lind himself among- soldiers
—^thinking them to be Confederates. He
was a runaway, and had stolen his mas-ter's
horse, to boot. We assured him that
he was among friends, and we pumped
him regarding Port Hudson, and if there
were many men there. ''Oh," said he,
"dar is lots an' lots of regiments goin' in
deve ebery day—two, fi'eo,lbar ebery day."
"How many men are there?" "Oh, lots—
1 guess about a million."' The same ques-tions
were asked of another^ negro next
day, who made the same replies as to dar tried
being lots. "Two frce,ft)ur regiments go shart
in ebry day. All going in, sar. None
come out. Guess dey got much as two
hundred." Wo did expect real hot work
at this time ; and I think our men were
physically better fitted for it tluni at any
led through the air, we sa.v the bright
flames rise and spread, and we flattered
ourselves with the thought that our fleet
had burned the town ; but as the flume
moved slowly down the river our joy was
turned to sorrow. We knew that wo had
lost some of the vessels of our fleet. And
the volume of flame and smoke that arose
when the final explosion took place told
Ut? truly that the best and largest vessel
of our fleet had been totally lost on the
waters whose name she bore. Sunday
afternoon we received orders to returu to
Baton Rouge, and at 3 o'clock we fell in-to
line at the rear. After we had been
about an hour on the mai'ch, we saw rap-idly
following us a regiment of rebel cav-alry,
and the prospect of being harrassed
by them on our flanks was anything but
agreeable, but just then a storm something
like the grandfather ot the one had last
June broke upon us, and for hours and
hours the rain fell pitilessly. When we
halted the water was knee deep on the
ground. We could neither lie or sit ; we
had the privilege of standing all night
and changing position occasionally to keep
from sinking too deep iu the mud. I do
not believe that there ivas a dry car-tridge
in the entire army. I know there
was not a dry skin, but before 9 o'^^lock
we all had what none can appreciate so
well as a fatigued soldier, a plentiful sup-ply
of capital hot coffee, and enough to
spare to our friends of the 26th Maine. If
it had not been for that coflee we would
have probably stayed at mud lake until
now. It was John S. Ives who saved the
day on that occasion, with Commissary
Sergeant Hills—princes both.
Time will not permit me to dwell with
minuteness upon the incidents of our sub-sequent
campaign. We spent a few days
at Elders plantation, live miles above Ba-ton
Rouge, and then returned and re-mained
until the end of March, when we
embarked on the St. Marys for i»onald-sonville
and remained three days—tlience
down the Lafourche to Thebodeaux, and
the same afternoon by rail to Bayou
Boeuf, where we had our last experience
with tlie tents and our iirst with alligator
meat and soft shell crabs. We left here
in light marching order ; and our dress
uniforms and spare garments and every-thing
but what we wore was left here, and
1 am sorry to say, they are all there yet.
We crossed over to Brashear and after
one day went aboard the St. Marys with
I wont s!iy how many men, but I think the
whole division—1 know that there were
more men than there v/ere square leet of
deck room—and steamed slowly up the
river into Lake Chetemarsch, and on the
13th we landed under the enemy's fire at
Hutchins Landing, and slowly skirmished
across the narrow neck between the lalvC
and Bayou Tesche, and eucamped for the
night on Madame Porter's plantation.
And here our usual fate bcfel us. We
were encamped in a cornfleld, and the
rain commenced to fall gently, but just
enough to turn the surface of the ground
into a soft paste, on which we lay anil
to sleep. Colonel Bissell and 1
shared between us the edge of a cracker
box. He tried to sleep ; so did I ; so did
all j but few found rest for their eyelids
that night. All day long we distinctly
lieard the roar of the artillery that told of
the fight going on between Banks and
time thereafter. I mean not the 25th , 'J'aylor at Bisland, below us ; and we
alone, but the whole army. None wore
broken down or enfeebled : they had fed
well, and everything looked favorable.
Four companies of the 25th were sent out
under a held cflicer to scout through the
woods toward the (Linton road ; and not
a symptom of hesitancy appeared on the
pai t of any one. We lay all Saturday
knew that a few more hours would bring
us under fire. Before dawn our brigade
advanced, 25th regiment in front, right
wing de])loyed as skirnnshers, dowp
through the cornfield toward the woods.
A crack and puff here and there from the
trees warned us that the enemy was met
at Jast. More firing from the woods, and
and night with orders to be ready to ad-1 our boys begin to retiirn it. Wo change
vance at ten minutes' notice. At midnight front and wheel to the right, and order in
the guns of the fleet on the river and the the skirmishers; and we stop at bout
batteries on the blull's told us that the fifty yards from the woods and give as
work of pa3sing the battoiies had begun.' good as we take. The 2Gth Maine comes
Wo watched every shell as its fuse upark- iumiediately iu our rear, the 159Ui Now
York in the center, 13th Connecticut on
the left and across the road. The firing
grows hotter on our front. Soon their ar-tillery
booms out and grape pour thick in-to
our ranks. Where are our reserves ?
Where are our guns ? Soon Lieutenant
Bradley, our Monte Sano friend, comes
up and answers their guns. Hotter and
faster is the fire. "Lie close and load,
and don't rise till I give conmiand," says
the Colonel ; "then rise quick, fire low,
and drop and load." ^nd so we do. Soon
a cry from one of Company K, "Dick Rose
is hi't." "Well, tell him to get to the rear
as well as he can." Dr. Woods and his
red flag are just at hand, not out of range,
ready to attend to any unfortunate. Up
springs Corporal Lord, of Company G,
before the order was given. "Lie dov/n
corporal',' said I, "till the colonel gives
the order. "But," vsaid he, "I see a rebel
c.olonel on a white horse, and I can drop
him." "Well, for goodness' sake, do,
then." Crack went thb corporal's rifle ;
and that was Colonel Riley's last day in
the field. How they yelled ! "Stand up,
you damn Yanks, and let us shoot you !'"
And for two hf)ursthis incessant warfare
continued. Every man's musket barrel
was blistering hot with rapid firing, and
ammunition was getting low, when, all at
once, a loud yell on our right startles us,
and at the same time a well-directed vol-ley
was poured into us from the flank.
One glance told the story. A Texas regi-ment
had crawled out, hidden by the
canes until they were close upon us. Nine
cannoniers of Lieutenant Bradley's section
dropped at the first fire ; but the spry fel-low
rattled off with his guns, and saved
them. Eighty-eight of our men fell in less
than five minutes. Thirteen of them dead
or mortally wounded. And our brother
regiments suffered almost as badly. We
were ordered to fall back, and did so for
about fifty yards where we reformed. And
as the 6th and 91st New York moved on
the field the enemy abandoned the woods,
and within fifteen minutes from the time
we were flanked, we were in possession
of the woods. And here we remained till
8 p. m. The rebel gunboat Diana was in
the bayou below us, sending us a friendly
message every twenty seconds in the shape
of a shell, or charge of grape. Bank's
force was below her, our regiment was on
shore to take her if she attempted to pass
us ; and her captain was a sensible man,
he got ashore with his men and ran away
after setting fire to the boat—which soon
blew up—and we returned back to the
sugar mill, which was used as a temporary
hospital, and remained all night. Out of
our little brigade over three hundred
wouiuled were lyi ighere, besides many of
our dead. Hayden, who had been hastily
buried on the field and disinterred, was
laid here, and beside him the young and
gallant Dewey, and poor Draper, Manly
and Lathrop of the 159th New York.
There on a flock bed lay young Hunt of
company H, with his side torn open, still
alive and conscious. There was 13atler of
company